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S_henry
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Evaluation period

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Can we make our website system have an evaluation period? I mean, if the website system is not activated within certain period after installed, it can't use anymore. Anybody has any idea about that?
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Hello,

you mean somesthing like a selfdetroy function or something like that?
The big problem is, you give your code away -> they can use it.

To really protect your work, i think this would be a safe way:

1. First you have to protect the source -> encode it!

sorry that i cant give you a link, but you should find some with google.


2. Evaluation period? I would forget this, make a domain on whitch the system is running, and your customers can try it out.

PHP is to easy to make a real good protection without encode the source.


greez Pozor
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Post by Pozor »

Hello,


encoder for php files:

http://zend.com/store/products/zend-encoder.php

with this you can do what you want:

have a good protection against reverseengineering
you can have a evaluation period for the files...

But it cost money! you get what you paid for.

greez pozor
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$960....no thank you kind sir
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Hello,

i heard about this company one year ago, now i was reading the page and i saw this...

http://zend.com/store/products/zend-smallbiz.php

maybe it fits better to you?

or look at this:
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=na ... t+php+code
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=de&ie=UT ... de&spell=1

greez Pozor
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Post by S_henry »

Thanks for your idea guys.
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